Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction by Ingrid Monson PDF

By Ingrid Monson

This clean examine the overlooked rhythm part in jazz ensembles indicates that the improvisational interaction between drums, bass, and piano is simply as leading edge, complicated, and spontaneous because the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' speak and musical examples to invite how musicians pass approximately "saying anything" via track in a manner that articulates id, politics, and race. via interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a point of view on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its center, within the construction of song via improvisational interplay, within the shaping of social groups and networks via song, and within the improvement of cultural meanings and ideologies that tell the translation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life.

Replete with unique musical transcriptions, this huge view of jazz improvisation and its emotional and cultural strength may have a large viewers between jazz fanatics, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists.

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